Automatic Image Anonymizer Alex Brettingen James Esposito

Goals Take any input image and remove, distort, or cover all human faces Retain the original integrity of the input image

Step One: Detect Faces Viola-Jones Object (Face) Detection Framework Outlined here – apers/viola-IJCV-01.pdf

Viola - Jones Feature types and evaluation: sums of image pixels within rectangular areas four different types of features used in the framework: value of any given feature is equal to the sum of the pixels within white rectangles subtracted from the sum of the pixels within dark rectangles

Viola - Jones Learning Algorithm in a standard 24x24 pixel sub-window, there are 162,336 possible features the Viola – Jones Algorithm employs a variant of the learning algorithm ‘AdaBoost’ to both select the best features and to train classifiers that use them.

Viola - Jones For this project, we used the Computer Vision Toolbox Matlab add-on to implement our Facial Detection (highly recommended) uter-vision/

How accurate is the Algorithm?

Anonymizer Now that we know that the algorithm is effective at detecting faces, we can find applications for it One such application is protecting the identities of people in photographs

Anonymizer We must alter the area of the photograph containing faces Blurring, covering entirely, or replacing with another image are possible methods

Method 1: Gaussian Blur

Method 2: Black-out

Method 3: Image Replacement

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Method 3: Image Replacement

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Remaining work Smooth blur edges Try a pixelation method Blending Image Replacement

Questions?